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Sarah ScireJuly 18, 2024

To find readers for longform investigations, Public Health Watch leans on partners and in-person work

Nonprofit newsrooms are competing for limited funding and attention spans, grappling with diminishing returns on social, and trying to address low trust in media. It’s forcing outlets large and small to adapt to survive.

Caroline CramptonMarch 26, 2019

The great British brush-off: The BBC and Google are fighting over who gets to control the podcast experience

Which is more important for a public broadcaster: distributing its content as widely as possible or putting its own interests above a tech company’s?

Joshua BentonJanuary 18, 2018

Media companies should open up an HQ2

If it’s good enough for Amazon, why not for news publishers? Trade in your New York rent for a wider, subway-phobic pool of talent.

Joshua BentonMarch 25, 2016

The game of concentration: The Internet is pushing the American news business to New York and the coasts

Rather than create geographic diversity, digital news has pushed the industry into a few tight clusters. That has real impacts on the journalism we get.

Joshua BentonSeptember 1, 2015

As giant platforms rise, local news is getting crushed

The quest for scale, driven by the distribution power of a few enormous technology platforms, is killing the business case for local news. Will anything take its place?

The New York Times is publishing on WhatsApp for the first time, covering Pope Francis

Susan E. McGregorNovember 10, 2014

Can mesh networks and offline wireless move from protest tools to news?

From the protests in Hong Kong to Occupy and Sandy in New York, a new generation of tools is allowing communities to connect without using the Internet. Can they have a use in news too?

Justin EllisOctober 17, 2013

Don’t go looking for a print copy of the International New York Times in Bangalore

The Times says print subscriptions in India were too few in number to continue offering after moving away from the International Herald Tribune brand.

Press Publish 9: Pew’s Amy Mitchell on the “challenged” state of the news media in 2013

Sports, weather, and traffic now fill 40 percent of local television news — while crime, politics, and government coverage are all down. Joshua Benton

Adrienne LaFranceMay 7, 2012

Super Mario, cub reporter: Jesse Schell on what the game industry could teach the news industry

The game designer and thinker says there are a number of parallels between the disruptions facing both industries.

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